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Josh Schwartz Talks Unused X-Men: First Class Script

In November 2008, Fox Studios hired, Josh Schwartz (The OC, Chuck) to pen the script for X-Men: First Class, a prequel to the existing set of X-Men films that have come out every 2-3 years since 2000 when Bryan Singer brought to life one of the most popular comic book franchises.

Schwartz' gig came to end a few months ago however, when Bryan Singer - long-rumored to be returning to the X-Men franchise - signed to direct X-Men: First Class. With his recruitment also came the signing of another writer, Jamie Moss (Street Kings). While it was confirmed that the movie would still be an origins prequel to the existing set of films and not a reboot, they would be starting fresh again and Schwartz work would not be utilized.

MTV News caught up with Schwartz recently and discussed the situation how far he got with the script.

"I finished my draft... Bryan Singer came on board the movie, who's the best possible guy to direct the 'X-Men' movies, and he wanted to make a very different kind of movie. He's Bryan Singer. If he wants to make an X-Men movie, they make his X-Men movie... But it was a great experience and it was an honor to work on it."

There's no way Singer would come back if he didn't get to create the movie and its story himself. So the question then becomes, what will Singer's story do different and what was Schwartz's all about?

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"I cannot. It's on lockdown... Sworn to secrecy. I swear to god, there's a sniper with a gun pointed at me from that building."

We won't know for a long time what Schwartz' story was going to be about so all we have to go on is what producer Lauren Shuler-Donner has revealed in the past. So, looking forward, what will Bryan Singer's take on Xavier's first group of mutant students be about?

We already know that it will involve Xavier's creation of the School for the Gifted and his befriending of Magneto. I figure they'll build Cerebro together and as the story unfolds, we'll see their relationship start to drift apart through their different philosophies on the future of mutantkind and co-existence with humans. I think the dynamic of seeing these two leaders working together and teaching the first X-Men will make for an interesting backdrop to tell another X-Men story on screen.